"Ya Manal, Baba is calling you" Nafisah said as soon as she bounced into my room. "Now fa!"

"Na ji!" I said withdrawing from my bed.

"Toh" She said bouncing out.

It had been nearly four months since I left Kano but there was no single day I would not think about Idris and his daughter, Amani. I so much wanted to call him but my father had forbade me from doing that, and also forbade me from texting or messaging him. It was a grave torture but I had no option but to accept it that way. Idris on the other hand totally cut his ties with me, not...